Subject: Help! I need drinking songs! From: mousethief Date: 14 Sep 05 - 01:40 AM Can y'all help me out? I've been put in charge of coming up with reasonably-clean, easy-to-sing-along-with, preferrably-in-English drinking songs for an Octoberfest. Thanks! |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Gurney Date: 14 Sep 05 - 02:10 AM Homebrew Belladonna Moonshine to close..... |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,freda Date: 14 Sep 05 - 02:17 AM fathom the bowl |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST Date: 14 Sep 05 - 02:21 AM Good Ale Bev and Jerry |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Richard Bridge Date: 14 Sep 05 - 02:22 AM Barley Mow John Barleycorn (any of the 3 versions) Jones' Ale Waters the Worker's Beer Ale, Ale glorious ale I have drunk one, I will drink two (Good Companions) Jock Stewart Landlord fill the flowing bowl Can't remember the title but "those Frenchies they will try to drink Old England dry" |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Little Robyn Date: 14 Sep 05 - 03:22 AM Drink old England dry! Robyn |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Dave Hanson Date: 14 Sep 05 - 03:40 AM Martin Said To His Man. Newcastle Brown Ale. eric |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,Guest, Big Tim Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:02 AM "Three Drunken Maidens. An absolute classic. |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:20 AM Search the DT with @drink @english |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: John MacKenzie Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:46 AM English you say? Never mind eh! Giok |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:53 AM But isn't it a liitle bit too grenouillish? |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 14 Sep 05 - 05:55 AM All For Me Grog |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: bfdk Date: 14 Sep 05 - 06:14 AM For the morning after: Wrecked Again (Ian McCalman) ;-)) |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,AnneMC Date: 14 Sep 05 - 06:28 AM One for the Morning Glory One for the morning glory Two for the early dew, Three for the man who will stand his round And four for the love of you, my girl, Four for the love of you.) That's the chorus above. Can find the verses ( and chords) if anyone wants it. Verse 1 goes: At the end of the day, I like a little drink, to raise up my voice and sing, And an hour or two of a fine brown brew, And I'm ready for anything. A catchy tongue-in-cheek type song. Anne |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: kendall Date: 14 Sep 05 - 06:33 AM Shingling the rum sellers roof |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 14 Sep 05 - 07:02 AM A slow song but has a chorus - "As Usual" |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: John MacKenzie Date: 14 Sep 05 - 07:55 AM I woke up with an aching head As usual I can't remember going to bed As usual I'd better see how much I've got Oh Jesus Christ I've drunk the lot! I must have been a drunken sot As usual. G. |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,HughM Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:06 AM The "As Usual" you mean is on "Ballads of Booze" by Hamish Imlach. I can remember a bit more: I supped a drink up like a Hoover, As usual, VP wine and paint remover, As usual, Somewhere deep inside my brain, I seem to hear a Diesel train, So I promise not to drink again, As usual. I used to play in a band which sometimes did barn dances for the Mormons. At one of these, our caller, who is actually a teetotaller, sang Whisky on a Sunday in the interval. For some reason they haven't asked us to play for them since! |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Amos Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:09 AM Glorious! Glorious! One keg of beer for the four of us! Praise be to God there's no more of us 'Cuz one of us could drink it all alone. A |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Mrs_Annie Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:12 AM Ye Mar'ners All lyrics here |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:41 AM Long time no see! Good to see you back. Old Peculier The Pubs of Yorkshire |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Fiolar Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:45 AM Don't forget - "Nancy Whiskey" and "I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler" (words include " I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler; I'm a long way from home; And if Moonshine don't kill me; It can leave me alone")Also "Katie Daly". There are dozens really. |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:48 AM Ramblin' Rover |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,Hilary Date: 14 Sep 05 - 08:48 AM Old Dun Cow (caught fire) Bring us a Barrel (and set it up right) |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: nutty Date: 14 Sep 05 - 10:45 AM ENGLISH ALE by Harvey Andrews .....wonderful song |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Louie Roy Date: 14 Sep 05 - 10:49 AM No one mentioned (The Beer Barrel Polka)One of my favorites is (The Friend Who Makes It 4)Easy to sin 3 verses with a good chorus |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: R. Padgett Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:30 AM Drink old England Dry (they say that they will come and drink) Fathom the bowl, Im a Rover, Wild Rover, Jones's Ale, Ale Glorious Ale, Barley mow, Bring us a Barrel, Here's to good old Whisky (mop it down, Boozing Bloody well boozing, Let grasses grow Thousands or More |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,Bill the Collie Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:37 AM As soon as this pub closes. Alex Glasgow. And Cyril Tawney had one "Boozin' bloody well boozin'" |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:39 AM drin boys drink, make sure that you do not spill, for uf you do you shall drink two for that is the masters will |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,Cire Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:43 AM Guest, you mean Harvest Home? |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Dug Date: 14 Sep 05 - 11:49 AM The Parting Glass Philosophers Drinking Song (Monty Python) Bundaberg Rum Coopers Sparkling Ale The rare oul' Mountain Dew Drink up the Zider |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Richard Bridge Date: 14 Sep 05 - 02:59 PM Rolling Home (or the Sid Kipper version "Rolling Drunk") Whisky Johnny Away with Rum (is the song of the salvation Army) Poison Beer There is a song I don't know the name of that names almost all the true single malts! It's a bugger to learn though. |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Little Robyn Date: 14 Sep 05 - 04:09 PM How about Charlie Mopps? A one, a two, a three, four, five, well......... Robyn |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Juan P-B Date: 14 Sep 05 - 05:01 PM To a well known show tune. Doh |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Juan P-B Date: 14 Sep 05 - 05:07 PM Dunno wot 'appen there! try Doh - A beer! A Mexican beer Ray - A man who buys me beer Me - A man I buy beer for Fa - A long way to the bar So - I think I'll have a beer La - ger? NO! I said a beer! Tea?- No Thanks! I'll have a beer That will bring us back to.... When you know the notes to sing You can drink 'most anything |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Snuffy Date: 14 Sep 05 - 07:18 PM Slightly different version (as sung by Morris men): Doh - A beer! A Mexican beer Re - A man who buys me beer Mi - A man Ray buys beer for Fa - A long way to the bar So - I think I'll have a beer La - la, la, la, la, la, la, Te - No Thanks! I'll have a beer Which will bring us back to.... |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Jim Dixon Date: 14 Sep 05 - 07:36 PM There have been numerous threads on this topic. See this thread first: Honky Tonk Drinking Songs and follow links from there to other threads. |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: RobbieWilson Date: 14 Sep 05 - 07:40 PM any song. Drunk sing.... what more is there to say? |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,Mike_in_st_c Date: 14 Sep 05 - 07:45 PM Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. Had me a drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head. No matter where I roam, By air or sea or foam, You'll always hear me singing my song. Show me the way to go home. Yah! Mike |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Gurney Date: 15 Sep 05 - 05:25 AM And a post-drinking song, Cyril's 'Monday Morning.' |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Tradsinger Date: 15 Sep 05 - 03:20 PM I want a beer, just like the beer That pickled dear old dad That was a beer, and the only beer That my dad ever had. A good old-fashioned beer with lots of foam It took ten men to carry my dad home Oh I want a beer, just like the beer That pickled dear old dad. I think you can guess the tune! Don't forget "The man who waters the workers' beer". Gwilym |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: JennyO Date: 15 Sep 05 - 10:47 PM I'm glad somebody started this thread, because my folk club is having a workshop night early in October, called "Work is the curse of the drinking classes" so it gives me more ideas. I hope my friends Ricarda and Nick from Wayward will be there so Ricarda can sing her French drinking song "Tourdion" here and here. She also sings a verse in English, adapted a bit so that it scans: When I drink a good red wine Everything turns turns turns turns around Come my friends and pour it in, pour it in. When I drink a good red wine Everything turns turns turns turns around Come my friends and pour it in, pour it in. Sing and drink - let us set about this bottle, Sing and drink, come on pour it in. Sing and drink - let us set about this bottle, Sing and drink, come on pour it in. Couple of others - Cells by Rudyard Kipling (haven't Kippled in a while), and has anyone mentioned The Parting Glass yet? There might also be some ideas on this previous thread Wanted: Songs for alcoholics! , as well as some links to related threads at the top of it. And of course there's this one - Martin Pearson did it the other night - I hope we have it at my folk club - it's a lot of fun: THE WINE SONG by Grant Baynham There are those who like their wine Because it adds sophistication To that hearty meal they're serving to their friends. And there are those who like their wine Because it helps in the creation Of that party feel on which so much depends. And there are those who'd like their wine To come from eastward-facing chateaux On the plateaux of Lorraine and all that bunk But their motives are not mine And I like lots and lots of wine And I like it 'cos it makes me drunk. There are those who take a glass Because it helps them to relax They find it helps their social manner to improve Well, that's a jolly useful scheme Which I have taken to its logical extreme: I sometimes get so well-relaxed I can't move And there's another kind of fellow Drinks champagne to make him mellow And he swears by Cliquot, Bollinger and Brut Well, I tried some Brut meself I found it on the bathroom shelf And he was right: it got me mellow as a newt. You can judge your wine by the quality of the vine, Its colour and bouquet and all that junk. But it all comes back to the falling over factor And the fact that it gets you drunk. There are those who like to think That it's important what you drink They haven't got an inkling what it's all about They spend their evenings wasting Decent drinking time by tasting Drops of this and that, then spitting it all out. They pass along the tables Strewth, they even read the labels Muttering things like, "What a shame The cork has shrunk" Or "fruity nose" or "too much tannin" When they ought to get a man in Who appreciates the chance to get drunk. They waste their time describing What they ought to be imbibing Which is wine of course, although you'd never think it. 'Cos they use words like "young but promising, " "Precocious," "full of fun"; You'd think they were going to adopt the stuff Not drink it. And at a meal these silly asses Have a row of empty glasses A different wine with every dish they eat. Me, I mix whatever's handy In a stiff, all-purpose shandy Which goes very nice with fish or Shredded Wheat. You can judge your wine by the quality of the vine Its colour and bouquet and all that junk But it all comes back to the falling over factor And the fact that it gets you drunk And there are those who take delight Pronouncing all the labels right They roll their r's and do those German glottals. Me, I couldn't give a monkey's 'Cos the stuff for getting drunk is On the inside not the outside of the bottles So if you have a cheese and wine Invite your friendly Philistine Call me drunkard, call me sot Or call me wino. What do I know? You'll find me in the kitchen I'll be giggerlin' and twitchin' Having a sup and throwing up Across your lino You can judge your wine by the quality of the vine Its colour and bouquet, if you insist. But it all comes back to the falling over factor And the fact that it gets you Misty-eyed and mellow, gets you Maudlin, mawkish, miserable and PISSED! |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: GUEST,Vic at work Date: 16 Sep 05 - 10:05 AM How about the Stixwold Harvest Song. Chorus in two parts round the verse Drink good ale Drink the barrel dry Verse Drink good ale. I have no idea of how to put a tune on here. |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: MMario Date: 16 Sep 05 - 10:11 AM vic - if you can write out the tune - or have it in some form already that can be scanned - you can send it to me [lpola@edutech.org]- I will post in ABC (which can be heard by cutting and pasting into the midifier on concertina.net) and send Joe a midi to be posted when our midi-posting problems are resolved. |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Charley Noble Date: 16 Sep 05 - 10:42 AM What, no one has suggested "Dead Dog Scrumpy" also known as "Dead Dog Cider"? It was originally composed by Trevor Crozier, with a chorus added later by Charlie Ipcar: Now, here's to Dead Dog Cid-er, the best there is by far; Here's to Dead Dog Cid-er, no moaning at the bar; You can search this wide world over, find many a beer or ale; But, when you've tried Dead Dog Cid-er – your search will be cur-tailed! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Richard Bridge Date: 16 Sep 05 - 10:48 AM When I was working in Alsace there was a local drinking song with the chorus "Hein Jean-Pierre leve toi ton verre Iglou iglou iglou (etc)" until the glass was empty. |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: JennyO Date: 16 Sep 05 - 11:27 AM Hmm. Don't know that one Richard. I might ask Ricarda if she knows it. Charlie - of course! How could I forget Dead Dog Cider? I'll make sure someone sings that at our folk club! Jenny |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: MissouriMud Date: 16 Sep 05 - 11:45 AM 'Round these parts, while we do drink a bit while we sing (normally between tunes), we dont sing too much while we drink (too complex a task) - if we do it we dont usually remember doing it let alone what we sang. We'll sing about upcoming drinking, then drink, and then sing later(usually bemoaning our condition). As such these arent really traditional "drinking songs" so much as songs about drinking - but some have potential for good sing alongs: Bottle of Wine (Tom Paxton) Mountain Dew Rye Whiskey (Drunken Hiccups/Jack of Diamonds etc) I always kind of liked the Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away, but havent done it for years. Of course in the Fifth Grade I recall singing "99 Bottle of Beer on the Wall" just to annoy my teachers. And there are the recent country hits - Friends in Low Places and I Love this Bar |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: Kitty Date: 16 Sep 05 - 02:10 PM How about Duncan (I love to have a beer with Duncan....) |
Subject: RE: Help! I need drinking songs! From: bfdk Date: 16 Sep 05 - 03:38 PM There's also this one: PREAB SAN OL (Traditional) Why spend your leisure bereft of pleasure Amassing treasures, why scrape and save Why look so canny at ev'ry penny You'll take no money within the grave Landlords and gentry with all their plenty Must still go empty where're they're bound So to my thinking we'd best be drinking Our glasses clinking and round and round King Solomon's glory so famed in story Was far outshone by the lily's guise But hard winds harden both field and garden Pleading for pardon, the lily dies Life's but a bauble of toil and trouble The feathered arrow once shot ne'er found So lads and lasses, because life passes Come fill your glasses for another round The huckster greedy, he blinds the needy There strives unheeding, shouts: 'Money down' His special vices, his fancy prices For a florins' value he'll charge a crown With hump for trammel, the scripture's camel Missed the needle's eye and so came to ground Why pine for riches, while still you've stitches To hold your britches up? Another round And this one: Our Glens (Buff Hardie / George Donald) I love Scotland's glens and whatever else we lose Please leave us our glens, our glorious glens Our mountains are grand, Ben Lomond, Ben Nevis too You can have all these bens, but leave us our glens Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Glendronnach, Glen Grant Can you do without them, if you must know I can't Put a drop in a glass of Glen Spey or Glendrottar It's a perfectly bearable way to drink water I'd willingly lose our culture or most of it For instance that mess called "Full Highland dress" With the full ethnic bit, with haggis and Hogmanay I'd gladly dispense, but leave us our glens Glenfarclass, Glenlochy, Glengarioch, Glenfaul I once knew a man who had sampled them all Glenugie, Glenkinchie, Glenisla - that's plenty He looked sixty-five, but in fact he was twenty Take our Highland schottiche, our marches, strathspeys and reels Take our old Scottish waltz, but leave us our malts Remove, if you will, our ladies' conveniences And our gentlemens', but leave us our glens Glenturret, Glen Scotia and last week Glen Fyne Was rare at Communion when they ran out of wine Glenglassough, Glenlossie, Glendullan, Glenmorangie I prefer them to Cointreau, which I find too orangie Oh, breathes there a Scot, whose views on priorities When laid on the line, are different from mine Take our jobs take our homes take anything else you will Wife, family and friends.. but leave us our glens Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Glendronnach, Glen Grant Can you do without them, if you must know I can't Put a drop in a glass of Glen Spey or Glendrottar It's a perfectly bearable way to drink water |
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